Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 60
Then the lord sprang to his feet and bade them make merry, and took off his hood, and hung it on a spear, and bade him win the worship thereof who should make most mirth that Christmas-tide.
Who acts: lord, feet, most mirth · What happens: spring, make, take off, hang, win, tide · To what, where: feet, hood, spear, bade, most mirth
This is a sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lord, feet, most mirth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sprang | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lord | det |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprang | nsubj |
| 4 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 feet | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 feet | nmod:poss |
| 7 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sprang | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bade | cc |
| 9 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feet | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 make | nsubj |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 feet | acl:relcl |
| 12 | merry | merry | ADV | _ | 11 make | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprang | conj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 took | compound:prt |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hood | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hood | hood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hung | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hung | cc |
| 21 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprang | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hung | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 spear | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 spear | det |
| 25 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hung | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 win | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 win | cc |
| 28 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 win | obl |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 bade | obj |
| 30 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprang | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 worship | det |
| 32 | worship | worship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 win | obj |
| 33 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 36 make | advmod |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 make | nsubj |
| 35 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 make | aux |
| 36 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 win | advcl |
| 37 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 38 mirth | amod |
| 38 | mirth | mirth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 make | obj |
| 39 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 tide | nsubj |
| 40 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 tide | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 Christmas | punct |
| 42 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 mirth | acl:relcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | the lord | lord's feet and bade | then | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination | |||
| 2 | make | present | feet = foot | lord's feet and bade not said here | merry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset foot=Product | |||
| 3 | take off | past | the lord not said here | lord's hood | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hood=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hang | past | the lord not said here | hood | a spear | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on spear=Destination | |||
| 5 | win | present | the lord not said here | bade lord | the worship obj | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worship=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | make | should | most mirth | who nsubj; thereof property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mirth=Product | ||||
| 7 | tide | most mirth | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 66084 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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